Re: [alsa-devel] USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Daniel Mack wrote:

> > At least the audio class and ua101 drivers don't do this and fill the
> > buffers before they are submitted.
> 
> Gnaa, you're right. I _thought_ my code does it the way I described, but
> what I wrote is how I _wanted_ to do it, not how it's currently done. I
> have a plan to change this in the future.
> 
> So unfortunately, that doesn't explain it either. Sorry for the noise.

At one point we tried an experiment, printing out the buffer and DMA 
addresses.  I don't recall seeing anything obviously wrong, but if an 
IOMMU was in use then that might not mean anything.  Is it possible 
that the IOMMU mappings sometimes get messed up for addresses above 4 
GB?

Alan Stern

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